Word Origin & History

bewitch c.1200, biwicchen, from be- + O.E. wiccian "to enchant, to practice witchcraft" (see witch). Literal at first, figurative sense of "to fascinate" is from 1520s. *Bewiccian may well have existed in O.E., but it is not attested. Related: Bewitching.

Example Sentences for bewitchments

Something of the bewitchments of a mistress come to her at this instant.

Most of them feel something like awe of her; they half believe her prayers to be bewitchments, but they want them on their side.

His face was so eloquent with the bewitchments through which he roamed that, for the first time that evening, Miss Raritan smiled.